Sunday, July 24, 2011

News Items and Comments

Piers Akerman – Saturday, July 23, 11 (05:42 pm)

In the middle of its cold summer holiday, Europe is struggling with two major issues - the fragile Euro economy and unwanted Islamic migration. The Left’s obsession with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is no longer news.Those among France’s hard-working middle class who do mention Murdoch, proprietor of this newspaper, do so with admiration for the drive and determination he has displayed throughout his corporation-building career.

The big topic is the economic survival of the European community. French president Nicolas Sarkozy held a press conference last Thursday night after an all-day summit with German chancellor Angela Merkel, Greek prime minister George Papandreou and other European leaders and bankers on Greece’s debt crisis.The Clayton’s solution Sarkozy outlined embraces a lowering of the interest rates on Greece’s crippling loans and an extension of the period in which the nation may repay them. This is not an end to the problem, it merely places Greece on an economic drip and its loans on the never-never.

It’s a classic European dodge. Push the problem into the future and hope that when it next erupts, someone else will have to deal with it.

I like migration and want more. I think it is important that the law be applied too. Equally and fairly. I think if we didn’t nuke our ability to grow, by not having water available, people would be less inclined to complain. Also bad immigration policy is an aggravating factor. The pacific solution was fair. The current policy is unfair.

Well that’s just jim dandy for you. I am totally unimpressed with the quality of immigrants we are getting and I want a moratorium, to allow time for INTEGRATION and not multiculturalism, which has been and will continue to be an abject failure.

DT replied to DD BallSun 24 Jul 11 (09:45am)

A New South Wales police officer commented recently that he and his colleagues would have far fewer problems if Temporary Protection Visas were still being issued, meaning that troublemakers from the refugee communities here would be less likely to misbehave.

I agree that the Pacific Solution was fair. I cannot understand why Labor abandoned it and I am very annoyed that they pretend that it is not the solution and ignore its past success.

Miranda Devine – Saturday, July 23, 11 (05:52 pm)

Sweet, pretty and popular, 14-year-old Dannii Sanders had almost 2000 Facebook friends. Whether or not cyberbullying played a part in her suicide last week, as her friends claim it did and those closest to her deny, it’s clear social networking was a big part of her short life.

And it’s also clear that after her death, a memorial Facebook page in her name was bombarded with vile hate messages and images.

“Deserved it. I (laughed out loud) hard,” one poster wrote. “She can’t read this because she’s dead,” wrote another. We won’t repeat the more depraved comments because that would just provide pleasure to those who create them.

Yes, pleasure.

Good people have to be engaged with the medium to mitigate the horror. People with authority who have a role in the lives of young people. I get it that many don’t want to go near it because of the dangers. But it means a lot when kids are getting into a spaz if an adult is on hand to play a cool, middle line. I don’t mean a parasite who gets pleasure associating with the young to recall their own youth. But a person who has an online presence which intersects with the lives of young people.One thing I am involved with but take no part in is local youth work in film and television and creative work. I am not an artist. I cannot help kids get gigs. I make suggestions where I can and try to promote what I can. For free. The result is I know many young people and are in touch with them through social networking. They tolerate my daily bible readings and conservative politics. I don’t interfere with their social chatter. But when the community was in mourning over the tragic murder of a young woman I was there and a mature presence. Kids still want that.

I want not so much free trade as the spirit of free trade for my country. Free trade means a little more wealth; the spirit of free trade is a reform of the mind itself, that is to say, the source of all reforms.

Her death reminds me of Janis Joplin. Her music reminded me of Billie Holiday. Her loss was predicted and predictable. Shame on those who egged her on.

The young woman’s death is a tragedy and a warning against suicidal policies espoused by the Greens like the repeal of all drug laws. The nutter Greens argue that illegal drug use is purely recreational when, in fact, it can be quite deadly for many fragile souls. Then again, the core of Green policies can be described as misanthropic. They’re a virtual death cult.

Consumers faced with blackouts or mandatory rationing of electricity often turn to on-site diesel generators, which can lead to greater air pollution.

So why these dire warnings to prepare for blackouts? Simple: the global warming fear-mongering and laws of our politicians are killing investment in electricity generation:

Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA, noted that electricity shortfalls are likely to continue as political, regulatory and financial hurdles make it difficult for governments and energy utilities to invest the estimated USD 16.6 trillion needed to meet annual growth in global electricity demand of 2% over the next 25 years.

As Czech President Vaclav Klaus agreed in my interview with him on today’s Bolt Report (encore at 4.30pm), we have more to fear from global warming policies than from global warming itself.

- It’s been wildly exaggerated. When he first started researching the topic, “I got rather frightened at the exaggerations that were going around.”

- It’s “certainly not proven” than man is largely to blame for any warming.

- “The sad part was that there were no senior scientists that were independent” in the field.

- He discovered that “the funding for climate change researchgwas only going to what you call true believers and when that happens inevitably you get a bias”.

- An Australian professor of physics told him he “completely” supported his concern but had to keep his team of 65 researchers going with work, and “the only funding I can get for them and to get their PhDs is greenhouse funding from Canberra or whereever”.

- “For 20 years people have been indoctrinated with the abuse of language” so that “climate change” is meant to suggest that all change is man-made. Of course, there’s climate change. That’s not the question

Andrew Bolt – Sunday, July 24, 11 (12:53 pm)

Alan RM Jones notes how often the ABC stresses that that Norwegian mass murderer Behring Breivik is a “Right wing Christian” - although relevance of his Christianity seems obscure, given nothing in the New Testament and nothing said by any Christian leader possibly justifies his murder of so many young Norwegians:

The suspect in twin attacks in and near Oslo that killed at least 92 people, Anders Behring Breivik, has admitted responsibility, his lawyer said.

Behring Breivik, 32, was detained for allegedly shooting at least 85 people dead at a youth Labour Party meeting on an island and killing seven more in a car bomb explosion which ripped through government buildings in Oslo.

He says Behring Breivik believes his actions were atrocious but necessary.

“He explained that it was cruel but that he had to go through with these acts,” Mr Lippestad said, adding that the attacks were “apparently planned over a long period of time”.

Police say they are questioning the right-wing Christian over the massacre - a killing spree that Norway’s prime minister Jens Stoltenburg said had turned an island paradise into “hell on Earth"…

Key details:

§ 92 dead, may rise to 98

§ Ring-wing Christian extremist charged

§ His farm searched for explosives

§ Possibility of a second gunman

While there had been initial fears the attacks might have been an act of revenge over Norway’s participation in the campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya, the focus shifted when it emerged the suspect was a native Norwegian.

While there was no official confirmation of the suspect’s identity, he was widely named by the local media as Anders Behring Breivik.

Blond-haired Behring Breivik’s Facebook page appeared to have been blocked by late Friday evening (local time). Earlier, it had listed interests including bodybuilding, conservative politics and freemasonry....

Police Commander Sverre Sprberg says they are looking for evidence.

“Actually we are just going through the whole farm, for technical evidence, looking for everything that could be connected to the late incident,” he said.

A sole message on Behring Breivik’s Twitter account, dated July 17, was based on a quote from British philosopher John Stuart Mill, reading: “One person with a belief is equal to a force of 100,000 who have only interests.”

Police spokesman Roger Andersen described the suspect as a ”Christian fundamentalist”, adding that his political opinions leaned ”to the right”.

The poll - conducted on Thursday evening using automated polling technology - found Labor would retain Lalor with 58 per cent of the two-party preferred vote, down from 72.2 per cent at last August’s election.

Two weeks after the PM unveiled her carbon-tax plan to an expectant nation, many voters in her own seat remain unconvinced of its merits. In Lalor, 43 per cent of voters are opposed to the plan and 24 per cent have yet to make up their minds. Only 33 per cent of voters in the PM’s seat favour the plan.

Keep this rose and balloon going for all the 98 peoples lives lost in the Norway Massacre ♥♥♥♥_____/)___/)______./¯"""/')¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯\)¯¯\)¯¯¯'\_„„„„\)¯`v´¯) Your families are in our thoughts`*.¸.*´ and prayers during this¸.•´ ¸.•*¨)¸.•*¨) difficult time!!!(¸.•´(¸.• (¸.•´¸¸.•¨¯`•.¸¸.♥

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I tremble in anticipation ..

Sydney's first Costco at the edge of hometown Lidcombe. Opened 21/07/20XI Over 30 staff from local Big W Quit and changed Allegiance to the 'merican Giant. This was actually shot the second day. FB Page http://www.facebook.com/group.​php?gid=1...

It has to be done. People will accept it if it is fair.

TREASURER Mike Baird has warned the state to expect the toughest budget in a decade as the NSW government faces the triple challenge of a rising budget deficit, a weakening economy and the need to fun...

Bad policy costs

FRUSTRATED doctors no longer want to write sick certificates for patients who have one day off, saying the current system is "idiotic" and a waste of their time.

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This is what a radical Islam movement declared was their work. And it was. It wasn't committed by them. It was committed by a Christian loon. But the Lord had nothing to do with his actions. The lord shielded the survivors and holds the victims.

HORRIFIED witnesses have described in graphic detail how mass killer Anders Breivik carried out the Oslo bloodbath, which left 91 dead in two horrific attacks.

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I don't care for his explanation. I would rather that any of the many slain lived. I would rather the witnesses would never have seen the slaughter. The betrayal of dressing as a policeman and calling for people to gather explains itself. My Lord never sanctioned it.

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